Anger Management Help

We have two choices when it comes to dealing with anger in our lives: We either learn to control it or it will control us. Anger is not something we can avoid or ignore. Whether it is our own anger or someone else's, much of our days are spent dealing with anger and its consequences.

Barbara H. Rosenwein traces our many conflicting ideas about and expressions of anger, taking the story from the Buddha to our own time, from anger's complete rejection to its warm reception. Rosenwein explores how anger has been characterized by gender and race, why it has been tied to violence and how that is often a false connection, how it has figured among the seven deadly sins and yet is considered a virtue, and how its interpretation, once largely the preserve of philosophers and theologians, has been gradually handed over to scientists - with very mixed results.